| Stanford Social Innovation Review's summer issue is now available online and as a downloadable digital edition. The print version is just starting to arrive in mailboxes across the country and around the world. Look for your copy soon! Highlights: Summer 2010 Issue
FEATUREs Working Wikily
Most nonprofits use social media like Facebook and Twitter as an ancillary part of what they do. A few organizations, however, are using these tools to fundamentally change the way they work and increase their social impact. What Works Five-Digit Giving—How texting became young donors' preferred way to make charitable donations. FIRST PERSON Scaling Impact—How to get 100x the results with 2x the organization. Q&A Jeffrey Sachs—Jeffrey Sachs believes that we must lift a billion-plus people out of poverty while simultaneously reducing our impact on the environment. case study Fueling Growth—Riders for Health had won international acclaim for its novel approach to maintaining health transport vehicles in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet the organization was having trouble scaling its services at its first site: Gambia. Here is how the organization won both government support and private funding for its latest innovation.
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Reeta Roy: New Frontiers of Financial Inclusion in Africa
 Will mobile telephones become the new super highway to connect the poor to the financial grid? Africa has the world's fastest-growing mobile communications market with 350 million mobile phone subscriptions. Yet, only one in five households has access to financial services. New mobile-enabled services could push the frontiers of financial inclusion and be a win for the region's development agenda. Last week's announcement in Kenya by Equity Bank, the largest microfinance provider in East Africa, and Safaricom, the largest provider of mobile-money transfers, may provide a glimpse into the future. Their new product, M-KESHO (M for money and Kesho meaning "tomorrow" in Swahili) allows anyone who owns a cell phone in Kenya to open and operate an interest-bearing savings account at Equity Bank. >>Continue reading this post
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Structures for Social Enterprise: Panel
 From the perspective of founders and those in the field of social enterprise, panelists in this discussion share the unique aspects of operating through a broad array of structures including a nonprofit, a for-profit social enterprise, and a hybrid organization working toward a social return. Kjerstin Erickson, who founded an NGO that works with African refugees, shares the traditional nonprofit story from bootstrapping to creating a sustainable model. Caryl Levine, cofounder with her husband of Lotus Foods, brings her vision of social and environmental consciousness to her products and company. Esther Kim, with her work at REDF, an organization that funds nonprofits through a venture philanthropy model, brings an intermediary perspective, providing a broad analysis of social enterprise. This Social Enterprise panel discussion was moderated by Kriss Deiglmeier, executive director of the Center for Social Innovation, as part of Stanford Entrepreneurship Week. >>Listen to this podcast
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